Pat- Yep, that's you, big as life. How will we ever recognize you without that neckbrace? <g> The plans for the Rapid Robert are kinda sparse, but there's enough there to build a boat. Except, that

boat? Thanks! Hopefuly I will be done before the birth. Made some significant progress last night. I think I have about a weeks worth of work left, which I will manage to stretch to four, and be

Yep that's me without brace. I took it off for the Pic. I still Get to wear it for another couple of months, but can take it off if I am careful. I had a full beard that I had had for almost 30

Pat- I went down to _my_ local library this afternoon and found what they had for the Rapid Robert, it turned out to be ten pages of poor photocopies, with no credit given to Tom Kaarhus. :o( The

Chris- I meant: will you have time to build your (real) boat between changing diapers? <g> -- John <jkohnen@...>

John Those are the same plans. I dumped mine. Text is the same too. I do remember the other detail drawings. Just like my boat. I know those plans work. Thanks for the update. Those are better

Oh, my mistake. Uh, probably not, for awhile anyway. Hopefully by next summer I will be back to taking on projects. I have a lot of home repair to do, etc., so we'll see. I would like to have

Pat- The boat looks good. I'm beginning to think that if I ever got a drift boat a Rapid Robert would suit me better than the typical modern variety. I wouldn't be using it in challenging whitewater,

Bryn- I've got the original Int'l Marine edition of Old Marine Engines, is your the newer one from Devereux Books? I wonder if there's any difference. Grayson has written a two volume book about the

John, I have no life. I had a dream last night about you trying to start your Gray. It was kind of a cross between starting an engine and trying to set off cannon. Lots of sparks and fire. In the

Greetings from the sunny end of the state. I've uploaded a picture of our Bolger Nymph with Son Greg & I taking it out on it's maiden sail last year at Emigrant Lake. It and our

It was a miracle. The neighbor's mobile home fire started only about half an hour after the wife and her younger sister had been out to get the last of the contents of trailer. The insurance was to

Finally got some pictures back and got them scanned. The cradle is further along than this, but it's the best I could do. I may have uploaded them in the wrong place, sorry about that. Not much

boat4.jpg Nice Hat (glad you're wearing a mask. I've been a woodworker for many years and haven't and it shows.) Very Nice Boat too. That's about the size lapstrake I might be able to tackle. Looks

Chris- That's a pretty little thing! Should look real nice when you get it finished. Let us know how the frame bending goes, Bryn and I will be doing some of that ourselves one of these days for our

That's amazing! They sure were lucky! I'll bet they were so overcome by their good fotune that they just plain forgot to reimburse the insurance company when those belongings miraculously reappeared

My Gray is pretty dull compared to some of the machinery at the Brooks fest: no exposed valve gear (no valves!); no make and break ignition; no hit or miss governor... Once it's running all it does is

John, the frame bending is nearly all done, two tough ones to go. My advice would be to steam until they get flexible, then put them back in! I keep breaking them in my impatience. It might be

Should be done in time. I'm really making progress now that I have most of the frames in. I'd guess a week or so from now. Plenty of time. If you are planning a lapstrake, my only advice would

No valves? No "Hit and Miss." Darn. That was cool. That starting proceedure must have been fun 30 miles offshore at night in a storm. (Fire?) Sounds a lot like my "Dream". That's when "Men were